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1205 Critic Quotes

My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Again All-Time Answer Ask
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Continue Elaborate Elite Fall
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There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.

Acting Any Citizen CitizenKane
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I listen to music constantly while writing.

Constantly Listen Music While
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

Could Decades Few Hope
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In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Found History Lived Never
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.

Am Before Began Civilization
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I buy way too many books.

Books Buy Many Too
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I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.
Am Children Father Good
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My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer.

Actor Becoming College Director
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

Depending Going Hour Hours
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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

Fun Hard Having HavingFun
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.

About Best Day End
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Among Most Never Possessions
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.

Languages Liars Speak Who
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One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

Itself Mind Only Own
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

Because Everything First Learning
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I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.
Admiration Contempt IWonder Motivation
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In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him.

Also Defeat Enemy Enough
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Everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
Everything First Ground Ideas
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There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good', to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Behave Benefit Community Every
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Of course, I also hear from critics who detest what I do, and while sometimes I feel rather proud of having made various the loathsome people or groups angry, at other times I wonder why I put up with such grief.

Also Angry Course Critics
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Love Emotion Experienced
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Man reserves Deepest love Company
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Love demands infinitely less than friendship.

Love demands Friendship
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

Officials Elected Good citizen
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

Man Love Woman Comfort
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What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency.

What passes Intuition Transparency
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

Contradict myself Improve wonderfully
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I drink to make other people interesting.

Drink People interesting
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In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.

The theatre Believe Woman Ladies
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Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
Love Emotion Feels Man
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

An optimist Fellow Believe Housefly
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The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

Test Comedian Laugh Opens
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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Man Think Fist Clenched
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Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.

Common sense Privilege World
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Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Great art Music Loveliness
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward

Life Spent Labor Wasted
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

Artist Wise Mind Indecent body
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Art is the sex of the imagination.

Art Sex Imagination
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Marriage is based on the theory that when a man discovers a brand of beer exactly to his taste, he should at once throw up his job and go to work inthe brewery.

Marriage Theory Man discovers Taste
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An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.

An actor Playwright Hole
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Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

Women Grow older Cosmetics Men
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Man Admire Woman Listen to
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

Have yet Man Direction Think
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Great drama is the souvenir of the adventure of a master among the pieces of his own soul.

Great drama Souvenir Master
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.

Criticism Appraising Own value
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Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Like everybody Seem Catching colds
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Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Beauty Idiots Wise men
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Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
Impersonal criticism Fight Marriage Successful
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